I woke up this morning in bed with a mild back ache–the sort that signals to me that I have officially breached the midway point of my thirties. For many months now since I started working from home, I’ve sat on a four-legged plastic chair in my office-room. The ergonomic police would arrest me if… Continue reading A Different Back Pain
Author: Wei Yong
Everyone A Handy One
In March 2018, I purchased a Bosch 12 volt brushless impact driver. I must have harboured thoughts of busting it out to perform reparations and upgrades around the home then. It however laid dormant in my toolbox until just days ago when my mum purchased two sets of new wall mounts. The task then was… Continue reading Everyone A Handy One
Movie Review: Tenet
Tenet is a film for Christopher Nolan fans. And for people who love movies that delve into time travel, time manipulation, and time distortion. However, this time, it’s really about time. Though, Tenet is not so much about time travel as it is about experiencing timelines in parallel: Forwards and backwards, at the same time.… Continue reading Movie Review: Tenet
Man’s Great Capacity For Evil
3 books appear time and again on reading lists:1) Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking2) Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning3) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago So, some time back, I decided that I had to start reading them. If not then, then when? I finished the first two, but am still deliberating my way… Continue reading Man’s Great Capacity For Evil
Understanding The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Sociological Lenses
Citizens worldwide are experiencing a biological event like no other. Termed Covid-19, this coronavirus claimed over ten million lives worldwide. Well before the World Health Organisation classed Covid-19 as a pandemic, scientists were already racing to triangulate its symptoms and determine its transmissibility (World Health Organization, 2020). Today, science and technology equip biologists and virologists… Continue reading Understanding The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Sociological Lenses
Susan Pinker: The Gender Gap
As I get ready to study gender issues this term, psychologist Susan Pinker is on hand to inform us that males are fragile. If the slides and data are any indication, men are on track to being extinct in some far future.